The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE CORNERSTONE of the Lee monument will
be laid at Richmond, Va. on Oct. Is with i'm
posing ceremonies.
THE Jersey jacket that covers the ample bust
of the women in the Salvation Army at Cold
water, Mich bears the legend No water in
hell. p"
LILY Of the species Victoria regia, which is
poisoning in Rochester conservatory, has a
| blossom about Is inches across, the bud or
which was foot in diameter.
BOILING SPRING in the centre of Crystal
Lake, near Ravenna, is exciting attention. The
water about it is too much agitated TO permit
| investigation from rowboat.
GoUNoD has earned 200 CO0f during the last
three years--a good deal in France, but not
much for an opera singer in America--and has
just sold his Joan of Are mass for 10000.
Texas NEWSPAPER claims to have received
in payment of a subscription 1.-The oldest hen on
record" The editor says she was imported
| from Mexico by the local physician eight or
nine years ago.
The whole number of casualties reported by
the medical corps of Philadelphia during the
three days constitutional celebration was 1884,
| OF which only two were fatal. The majority of
the cases were of fainting. exhaustion and other
results OF fatigue and exposure in the crowd.
A NORWICH CONN newspaper says that in
| that city is a man about ) feet s inches tall
whose beard is 50 long that when he stands
| erect 1t reaches the floor and extends out from
| his feet fully 20 inches. The beard is 6 feet
inches long, and up to date is the longest
known.
| The Swedish Count, NJ Biornstjerna, sug
gested more than forty years ago, in book on
| THE Theogony of the Hindoos" that, as both
| poles must have been cooled to a suitable tenn
| perature at the same time the earth might have
| been peopled from the North Pole with its white
| nnlnra1
| races.
GEN. PRJEvALsKY is to be presented by the
Imperial Scientific Society, of st. Peter burg
with gold medal, which has been specially
| struck lii his honor, by ordt r of the Emperor
1t bears on the diverse the initials Of the recip
lent, and on the reverse the in c;iption To the
first student of the natural history of Central
| ASIA"
HARTFORD YoUNGsFER goes to church where
| the concluding Amen of the parsons prayer is
sung by the choir The other night, after he
| had said his prayers he produced harmonica
| from beneath his pillow and astonished his
mother by blowing blast where the Amen came
| in, remarking: That's the way we do in
church"
THE military doctors account for the preva
lence of diseases of the heart in the French
army as arising from the fatigu ng duties i'm
posed on recruits, at an age when, generally,
the development of the body Is not in harmony
it behind it. In the latter case the re is hyper
trophy of growth, in the former inSufficiency.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, is reported to have
said in a recent conversation that the best mon
archy is the one in which the King is felt every
where without being observed. And the best
republicy' he was asked 1T is that one " was
the reply. where. as in America the genius of
the people has so deeply penatrated every fibre
of social fabric that no place remains for
king"
THE food of the American laboring man is
much more nutritious on the average than that
of his European oomp-t.tors 1t is also shown
that he turns off much more work than the
European workngman He is better paid
better housed. better clothed and better fed
than the European. He has better opportunitit
for self-development. more to stimulate his am
bition and more hope of reward if his work is
efficient.
OBSERVATIONS made at the late South Ken
sington aquarium upon the effect of tempera-
ture on fish show that the dogfish mullet CON
ger, skate. founder, bass, cod, trout, catfish,
pike and carp are extremely hardy and can
exist in temper ture ranging from 3f' to re
The gurnard, wraSse, builhead. sole, Dream,
crayfish, olennie. perch, dace, tench, mmnow
club, roach and guigeon are sensitive to ex-
tremeS of temperature
A WOMAN at NJ nmouth, H., thus replies to
| the advertisement of her husband warning peo-
| pie against her: Il never knew him to own a
| bed, and as for board it wasn't much, for any
| body can see by my face that am nigh in bone
| and low in flesh As for credit he had none
| The reason left him he tod me to leave and
| has been telling me that all summer and he
| called me lazy. will leave it to my neighbors
| He also threatened to XII me-"
THE house No. AZ Lothian street, Edinburgh,
which was formerly occupied by Thomas de
| Quincy, and wnere he died in 1859, has been
distinguished by a tablet, composed of tiles
with an ornamental border. the letters being in
| ivory white on an Indian red ground. The in
| scription is as follows Thomas de Quincy.
| Prose Writer, Born 17S5-Died 1859, Lived Here y
| Something of Il similar description is to be done
| upon a new building in course of erection in
| Chambers street upon the site of the house
| where Sir Walter Scott was born.
| THERE is a man in Aegan, Mich, who is 60
| ing to have house of his own by snowfall if
vim will do it. He works for 81 50 per week,
pays So 80 of that every week a debt sup
ports himself and wife on the s. and saves
enough out to buy all the lumber he can work
| up nights and mornings during the week. He
has carried every piece of lumber on his back to
| the house, to save drayage, and distance of
| over half mile. before work in the morning
| he has backed two loads home from the yard
and going home from work he always improves
| the time.
WHITE soUALL is one which produces no
diminution of light. This furious and danger
| Gus gust appears in clear weather without any
| other warning than the white foam it occasions
| on the surface of the sea and a very thin haze
| 1t usually breaks upon a vessel when she is
| totally uGprepared for such strain upon her
canvas, and consequently proves one of the
most dangerous forms OF the sailors existence
A black sqlall is far less dangerous as it is
usually preceded by an accumulation of dark
clouds anu accompanied by heavy rain. Time
is thus given to trim sails and to avert peril
In the printing offices of Great Britain even
yet the capitals are at the top of the upper case
while the galley rests upon its lower edge; there
| also are the figures. While the improvements
in printing in earlier years came from the
mother country as was to be expected from her
greater wealth and the greater amount of work
last forty years. The cylinder press was used
in England thirteen years before it was brought
into service here, and composition balls and
| rollers ten years before; but the type revolving
press was American, and Craske invented
stereotyplng for newspapers years before it was
used by the London Times Endless rolls of
paper to feed With and a thousand small inven-
tions are ours.
AN AUSTRIAN PAPER, theta Lumiere Elec-
tr1que, now tries to rob Franklin of the honor Of
his discovery, and says monk of Seutpenberg.
in Bohemia, named Bishop Diwisch erected the
first lightning rod on June 10, !754 THE an
paratus was composed of q pole surmounted by
an iron rod supporting twelve curved up
branches, and terminating In as many metallic
boxes filled with iron ore. and closed by box
wood cover, traversed by twenty seven sharp
| iron points, which plunged at their base in the
ore All the system was united To the earth by
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